He is the real deal. He looks like he is 15 years old. An astonishing game.<\/p>\n
And to all you Yankee fans who have gloated in my face over the years:<\/p>\n
I feel no sympathy with your pain right now. You gotta eat that pain, just like everybody else has had to.<\/p>\n
Oh, and a funny thing:<\/p>\n
I was walking home from the bar, walking cross town. There was a strange chastened quiet through the streets – there was none of the drunken yahoo-ness on display like in weeks past. People huddled together on corners, and I heard phrases like, “DAMMit” and “Fuckin’ Allan Boone! He SUCKS!”<\/p>\n
A homeless man, lying on the sidewalk, back up against a building, called up to me, “Who won tonight?”<\/p>\n
I said, “The Marlins.”<\/p>\n
He took this information in for a second and then nodded like a wise sage. “The Marlins are a TEAM. The Yankees are just a collection of individuals.”<\/p>\n
The man obviously doesn’t even have a television, but he knows the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
He is the real deal. He looks like he is 15 years old. An astonishing game. And to all you Yankee fans who have gloated in my face over the years: I feel no sympathy with your pain right now. … Continue reading